Chapter 93: Doing White Work
After about fifteen minutes of riding the electric car, we came to a house where we stopped, and there was a coffin in the courtyard of this house, and there was a coffin in front of the coffin, and the man in the photo was an old man about sixty or seventy years old.
"Master, what is this?" I looked at Master and asked, puzzled.
"I took over a white affair today, you follow me to fight, you hurry up and put on the robe I gave you" After the master said this to me, he walked to the house, I listened to the master's words and put the robe in my hand on my body and then I also walked towards the house, when I walked to the coffin, I looked at the coffin curiously, I found that the coffin was empty, when I entered the house, I found that there was an old man in a black shroud lying on the left side of the center of the room, The old man's face was not the same as the old man in the photo, and the deceased looked much thinner than the old man in the photo.
"Liu Shou, you go out and bring in that leather suitcase of mine," Master instructed me.
"Okay Master," I trotted all the way to the electric scooter outside, and took Master's old-fashioned suitcase off the pedal of the electric car.
"Master, for you," I said, handing the old-fashioned suitcase to Master.
"Put it aside" After the master said this, he began to get busy, he first used a brush to write a spirit card for the deceased and put it on the deceased's head, and then prepared five vegetarian bowls to put in front of the deceased's spirit card, these five vegetarian bowls are made of lettuce, which are respectively filled with meat, poached eggs, crucian carp, vermicelli, and tofu. On each side of each of the five bowls is a white candle, and in front of the five bowls there is an incense burner, and three incense sticks are inserted in the stove.
"Liu Shou, go find a small plate for me," the master instructed me as he turned back to me.
"Yes," I nodded, and then went to their kitchen, found a small plate, and handed it to Master.
Master took the small dish in my hand, poured a little sesame oil into it, and then he made a wick out of the noodles, lit it in the small saucer, and placed it under the deceased in the direction to the left.
"Master, what are you doing here?" I asked Master, pointing to the burning dish with sesame oil.
"This is called the everlasting lamp, it is to guide the soul of the deceased, the deceased is a man to be placed on the left, the deceased is a woman is generally placed on the right" Master explained to me, after listening to Master's explanation, I remember that when my grandmother died, there was also a lantern under her old man's body, at that time, my father found the Mr. Bai Shi told me to take care of the lantern, not to let it go out, so I knelt beside my grandmother for two days, at that time I didn't know what the lantern was for, I didn't know it was called an ever-bright lamp.
When everything was ready, Master sat down next to the deceased, closed his eyes, shook the Sanqing Bell in his hand, and began to recite the Taoist Sutra of Transcendence: "Tianzun said." All things are born to me. All souls. Afflictions and misfortunes. Be saved. You don't need your might. Incarnate salvation. This Oriental Changle World. There are those who are merciful. Taiyi saves the suffering Tianzun. The incarnation is like a constant number of sands. Things follow the sound. Or live in the heavenly palace. or descend into the world. or hell. Or the crowd of evil. Or for the fairy boy and girl. Or for the emperor and saint. Or for Tianzun real people. Or for the King of Vajra. Or for the Demon King Lux. Or for the Heavenly Master Taoist. Or for the emperor. Or for the heavenly doctor Gong Cao. or for men and women. Or for civil and military officials. Or for the generalissimo. Or for the teacher Zen master. Or for the wind and rain. The power is immeasurable. The deeds are endless. Seek sound and help the suffering. The object should be random. I tell you ....... now"
The Taoist scriptures that Master recited, I heard him recite last time in the ancestral cemetery of the clan, and I stood by the Master's side at any time to listen to his dispatch, I thought to myself that my life is also quite sad, and it is really unfortunate to follow the Master out to do white things during this big holiday.
The deceased had three sons and a daughter, and the four of them had special respect for me and my master, and they would give us whatever we needed as soon as possible, and even if they didn't have them, they would drive to buy them for us first.
At noon, Master and I shared a table alone, and our table was full of chickens, ducks, and fish, and the food prepared for us by the host was absolutely sumptuous, and the people who helped outside did not eat as well as Master and me.
I unceremoniously tore a chicken leg and put it in Master's bowl, and then tore another chicken leg and ate it in a big bite, because I didn't have much appetite to eat at Uncle Wang's last night, and I didn't eat early in the morning, I am really a little hungry now, Master looked at the chicken leg in his bowl and nodded to me with a smile.
"You kid eat slowly, don't choke," Master handed me a bottle of soda as he said this.
"Thank you, Master, you won't choke," I said, and then I took a piece of fish meat and put it in my mouth. After I had eaten and drunk, I lay on the kang in the deceased's house and touched my bulging belly contentedly.
"I'm a little sleepy and want to sleep for a while, this is our Taoist transcendent scripture, in the afternoon, you will recite the transcendent scripture to the deceased" After the master handed me a booklet, he lay down on the kang and fell asleep, and after a while, the master began to snore, and I was a little sleepy when I saw the master sleeping so soundly.
I took the booklet that Master gave me, sat next to the deceased and read the Taoist transcendent scriptures, I was not as powerful as the master to close my eyes and read, I shook the three clear bells in one hand, and held the booklet of the transcendent scriptures in the other hand and read according to the words on it.
In a flash, it was night, and there were many people in the deceased's house who helped in his house during the day, but at night there were few people, except for the eldest son of the deceased who stayed at home to keep watch, and the rest of the people left.
The eldest son of the deceased was about forty years old, thin but very temperamental, driving a Mukden Planda, and the eldest son of the deceased was very polite to my master, and handed me either cigarettes or wine at the dinner table.
"Master, it's already seven o'clock in the evening, should we go back?" I asked Master, looking at the already dark sky.
"If we come out to do white work like this, we have to stay in the deceased's house for three days and two nights, and we can not go back until the deceased is out of the funeral," Master said to me, looking at the deceased.
"Master, do you want to get a salary increase for this overtime?" I looked at Master and smiled.
"Add your grandma's legs, is it in your kid's eyes when you lose money" The master said to me angrily.
"If you don't add it, you won't add it, why are you still scolding," I said to Master with a red face.
"It's good that I didn't hit you, hurry up and recite the scriptures," the master commanded me with a glare.
"I see," I sat beside the deceased with the booklet of the transcendental scriptures and recited the transcendent scriptures, while the Master was sitting in the back room chatting with the deceased's eldest son, and I was alone in front of the deceased with a little fear in my heart.
"Liu Shou" At this time, Xia Wanting appeared beside me.
"Hey, how did you find this" Seeing Xia Wanting's appearance, I was a little overjoyed, and I wasn't so scared to have her there.
"Because we both have a secret marriage contract, I can feel where you are, so it's easy to find you," Xia Wanting smiled at me.